Mexico took the first steps June 21 toward extraditing former Quintana Roo governor Mario Villanueva Madrid to the US, where he is wanted in New York City on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering. President Felipe Calderón has… Read moreMexico moves to extradite former governor
Two were killed and four injured in an ambush at San Miguel Aloapam in the Ixtlán de Juárez district of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state, according to the municipal president Alejandro Cruz Pablo. State authorities said five men had been arrested… Read moreTwo dead in Oaxaca land conflict
A petition from O’odham Voice Against the Wall, posted to journalist Brenda Norrell’s Censored, blog, June 15: We Demand the Return of Human Remains Unearthed During a Recent Desecration of a Sacred Burial Ground On May 17th and May 21st… Read moreTohono O’odham: border wall disturbs ancestral graves
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has condemned the incommunicado detention and apparent “disappearance” in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state of Raymundo Rivera Bravo, 55, and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, 50, two militants of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party (PDPR). According to… Read moreOaxaca: PDPR militants “disappeared”
Leaders of the Section 50 health workers union in Mexico’s conflicted and impoverished southern state of Chiapas issued an urgent call to state and federal authorities to establish dialogue with the Zapatista Nation Liberation Army’s regional authorities at the highland… Read moreChiapas: whooping cough epidemic?
Veracruz state police detained 47 members of local campesino group “Los Dorados de Villa” at the community of Ixhuatlán de Madero, in the mountainous Huasteca region. The campesinos, adherents of the Zapatista “Other Campaign,” had been peacefully occupying a 513-hectare… Read moreVeracruz: police raid peasant land occupation
Resuming his national tour of Mexico, Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista rebels met June 14 with residents of Loma de Santa María barrio in Morelia, Michoacán, who oppose a so-called “mega-tunnel” state authorities plan to build through their neighborhood. After… Read moreMichoacán: Subcommander Marcos meets “mega-tunnel” opponents
Federal judicial authorities in Mexico have granted an injuction to a group of Zoque indigenous campesinos in the Chimalapas region straddling the border of Chiapas and Oaxaca states, halting construction of a road through their territory. The petitioners, from the… Read morePeasant ecologists halt highway construction on Chiapas-Oaxaca border
On June 14, Jose Luis Soberanes Fernandez, president of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), confirmed that soldiers had raped at least two underage girls and possibly two others during an anti-drug operation in Caracuaro, Michoacan, from May 2 to… Read moreMexico: rights commission confirms army abuses
The government of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca apologized for the first time June 15 for a police raid on striking teachers in the central plaza of the state capital one year ago that led to Mexico’s worst political… Read moreOaxaca: government issues apology for repression
In a “mega-march” extending more than 10 kilometers, thousands of teachers from the Section 22 union and their supporters in the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) marched through southern Mexico’s Oaxaca City June 14 to mark the first anniversary… Read moreOaxaca: “mega-march” commemorates start of uprising
From the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), June 13: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting of a Mexican journalist who had received death threats in connection with his investigation of the slaying of a U.S. journalist during violent… Read moreOaxaca: journalist shot while investigating Brad Will case
